1998 年 2 巻 1 号 p. 29-37
The purpose of this study is to make clear special characteristics about women's clothes, and about outdoor and indoor places, and to analyze the adaptability of women's clothes to places each. This study is composed of two kinds of sensory evaluation experiments. First, the special characteristics about clothes and places were studied, using factor analysis. In the experiment, 120 color photographs were rated by 15 bipolar adjective phrases about indoor places, outdoor places and clothes. And 2 fundamental factors about women's clothes, 4 factors about outdoor places, and 3 factors about indoor places were obtianed. On the basis of the result, the sample for the second experiment were selected; women's clothes were 14, outdoors places 12, and indoors places 9. Next, the second experiment on adaptability of 14 clothes to 21 places by rating scale method was carried on. Mean values for each one of places were ploted every 14 clothes, which were classified according to distribution of evaluation. As the result, 5 types were divided on the relation between women's clothes and outdoor places, and 4 types on indoor places. In conclusion, the adaptability of women's clothes to outdoor and indoor places were showed being some types for example, “unadaptable-type”, “extensive-type” etc.